The Frontier Force Regiment (commonly known as the Piffers) was officially raised on May 18, 1849 by Colonel Henry Lawrence.
The force was composed of five regiments of cavalry, the Corps of Guides (both infantry and cavalry), four mountain batteries, one garrison heavy battery, four regiments of Sikh infantry, six regiments of Punjab infantry and one regiment of Gurkha infantry.
All the regimental groups were amalgamated in 1956 to form one regiment, the Frontier Force Regiment.
Colonels in Chief
General Muhammad Musa Khan HJ, HPk, HQA, MBE. August 31, 1964 - March 12, 1991
General Abdul Wahid Kakar HI (M), SBt. May 18, 1993 - May 17, 1997
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When the 13th FrontierForceRifles was formed in 1922, the 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th Rifles returned to their old numbers as the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th battalions, the 3rd remaining blank as before.
The Pathan Regiment was raised from formed fromthe 4th Battalion of the FrontierForceRegiment and the 4th and 15th Battalions of the FrontierForceRifles.
FrontierForceRegiment was re-organized by the merger of FrontierForceRegiment, FrontierForceRifles and Pathan Regiment.
The 12th FrontierForceRegiment’s origins lie in the four infantry regiments of the Frontier Brigade authorised in 1846 and raised by Colonel Henry Lawrence, the agent of the Governor-General of the Punjabfrontier region, from veterans of disbanded opposition forces after the First Anglo-Sikh War.
In the 1922 reorganisation of the British Indian Army the four Sikh regiments (by now re-named 51st, 52nd, 53rd and 54th Sikhs) became the first four battalions of the newly-constituted 12th FrontierForceRegiment whilst the infantry element of the Corps of Guides became its 5th and 10th battalions.
In 1956 The FrontierForceRifles and The Pathan Regiment were amalgamated with it whilst it retained the name FrontierForceRegiment.
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